Roundtable Recap: October 28 – Convert Potential Competitors To Partners

At today’s roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items. First up today was Antonio Lucena de Faria with ActionFlow from Portugal. Antonio has a portfolio of web based business process management applications for

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October 28 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here.  You can select the business presented that you like best through a poll on our One Million By One Million Facebook page.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Is your architecture a private cloud, or is it hosted on a vendor’s site? Scott: Well, we have a mix of both depending on the applications themselves. In the case of some new applications that we may implement in the future, we are having that debate

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Morphing a Consulting Business to a Cloud Computing Product Company: Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL (Part 4)

Sramana: Does that mean that your Comergent business went away? Bill Loumpouridis: It did not go away. In 2007, I saw the trend that would take us away from traditional premise-based application development and move us toward cloud development.

Morphing a Consulting Business to a Cloud Computing Product Company: Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL (Part 3)

Sramana: How did you establish your relationship with Comergent? Bill Loumpouridis: Entering business partnerships like the one we did with Comergent is crucial and difficult. Establishing that relationship came through my personal business network. When the dot-com crash happened I reached out across my network and had a lot of conversations with people across the

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Morphing a Consulting Business to a Cloud Computing Product Company: Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL (Part 2)

Sramana: Where did you apply the object-oriented paradigm? Did you go to IT organizations in Chicago-area enterprises? How did you generate business? Bill Loumpouridis: As specialized consultants we tried to align ourselves with some larger companies that were going to market and needed our skill set. Larger companies would then pull us into more deals.

Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, October 28

For entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and all aspects of a startup venture, this FREE online strategy roundtable will begin at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST on Thursday, October 28, 2010.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

Morphing a Consulting Business to a Cloud Computing Product Company: Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL (Part 1)

Bill Loumpouridis is the CEO and founder of EDL Consulting. Prior to EDL he served as vice president of CRM at iXL, regional customer relationship management (CRM) practice leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, founder of Strategic Technology Resources (STR), founded Strategic Technology Resources, and served as an executive manager at Lante Corporation. He studied math and computer

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